Gulf Coast Highway

Emmylou Harris

Lyrics

Intro

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Verse

CFC Gulf Coast Highway, he worked the rails
CF He worked the rice fields, with their cool dark wells
AmGC He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico
FCGC The only home he's ever known is this old house here by the road

Refrain

AmGC And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing
FCGC He will fly away to heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring
She walked through spring time, when I was home
The days were sweet and our nights were warm
The seasons change, the work will come, the flowers fade
And this old house felt so alone when the work took me away
And when she dies she says she'll catch some blackbird's wing
And she will fly away to heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring

Break

| Em . . . | Em . . . | D . G/B . | G/B . . . |
Highway 90, the jobs are gone
We tend our garden, we set the sun
This is the only place on Earth blue bonnets grow
Once a year they come and go, at this old house here by the road
And when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing
And we will fly away to heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring
Yes, when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing
And we will fly away together, come some sweet blue bonnet spring

Notes & Tabs

Capo 2nd Fret

In the recorded version this is based off of (see below), Emmylou plays with a capo on the 2nd fret. Dave Matthews plays along without a capo in the key of D (where all chords here would be raised by one whole step).

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